Ocean Base Co., Ltd.

Ocean Tramping Company Ltd

Yellow flag with a red T inside a red O in the middle.
Source: Josef NüsseIvan Sache, 25 August 2002

Original flag noted as white with a blue ring or "O" enclosing a
blue "T".Neale Rosanoski, 23 January 2003

Original flag
image by Jarig Bakker, 23 December 2005Source:Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World[lgr95]

White flag, blue circle, blue "T".Jarig Bakker, 23 December 2005

Oriental Overseas Container Line Ltd

image by Jarig Bakker, 25 January 2006Source:Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World[lgr95]

image by Ivan Sache

Yellow flag with a red flower with white stamens in the middle. The flower
has five petals, five long stamens on hte median of each petal, and five
groups of two shorter stamens each placed between the long stamens. all the
stamens converge into a small central white disk.
The 1993 flag is yellow with OOCL in red in the middle. A flower is placed
in the middle of the second O. The flower is similar to that described above
but with a different axis and different colours: petals are yellow and stamens
are red.
Source: Josef NüsseIvan Sache, 25 August 2002

Correct name is Orient Overseas Container Line. Loughran 1979 shows the 1st
flag with a white field but in Brown 1982 he shows the yellow version.Neale Rosanoski, 23 January 2003

There are some political meanings in this flag, since the flower on this
flag is a plum blossom, stylized in the RoC-TW style-- Plum blossom is the
alternative emblem of RoC-TW. Historically, the founder of OOCL, C.Y.Tung
(1912-1982), was heavily aligned with the Taiwanese cause. C.Y. Tung
established the China Lines in 1935 and moved to Taipei in 1949, while the
OOCL was established in Hong Kong a few years after that. Until mid-eighties
both companies were held by the Tung family, first C.Y. Tung then to Chee-Hwa
Tung (Yes, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, PRC -- surprised?). Chiang
Kai-shek had seen them for a number of times, and he always regarded the OOCL
THE shipping company of the Republic of China. The head of China Lines is, in
fact, Chee-Hwa Tung's brother-in-law.
The OOCL shifted their preference towards the PRC side because the company
was in crisis in the mid-eighties, the Taiwanese failed to give them any help,
but it was the PRC (plus HSBC) which gave them enough help for them to pass
it...
China Lines has officially merged into the OOCL, called OOCL Taiwan.John Ma, 31 August 2002

Oriental Overseas Container Line. Part of Orient Overseas (International)
Ltd. which is registered in Bermuda with the principal
office in Hong Kong. The version shown by Jarig is correct as he shows white
stamens. However his source of Brown 1995 actually shows black stamens as
does the 1982 edition, which fact I had not previously clicked to and is
presumably a printing error. The 2nd image by Ivan is upside down and when
corrected will of course be the same as Jarig's image. The problem is Ivan's
source as Josef Nüsse had it upside down on his original website but his new
site has it the right way up.
Although the yellow colour of the flag is confirmed by the table flags,
photos of the flags flown at sea between at least 2005 and 2010, as
evidenced by the attached taken of the "OOCL Europe" showing a
flag field which is in line with the creamy yellow shade of the funnel,
unless the three that I have located all suffer from similar degrees of
fading. The emblem is also larger than that of the table flags. Possibly
therefore there are two versions for sea and shore use.Neale Rosanoski, 17 January 2012

Oriental Steamship

image by António Martins-Tuválkin , 11 December 2005

The new and rapidly expanding shipping company Orient
Steamship is located in Hong Kong.
Founded by brothers John and Philip Koo in 2002, operating two bulk
carriers and chartering another one plus a tanker.
The house flag is horizontally divided red above white, a large letter
‘K’ in the middle counterchanged. The initial obviously refers to the
family name.
In fact the website’s ‘History’
section details the maritime activities of the Koo family (Tai Chong Cheang
Steamship Co. in mainland China since the beginning of 20C, later Valles
Steamship in Hong Kong, 1949).Jan Mertens, 11 December 2005

Peninsular Shipping Co., Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker, 23 December 2005Source:Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World[lgr95]

White flag, blue "PS".Jarig Bakker, 23 December 2005

Philippines Steamship Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 29 March 2008Source:Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) [llo12]

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) [llo12] shows the house flag of
"Philippines Steamship Co." (#129, p. 43), a company based in Hong
Kong, as divided per saltire blue-white-blue-white.Ivan Sache, 29 March 2008

Prompt Shipping Corp., Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker 16 November 2005Source:Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World, 1995 [lgr95]

"Prosperity Steamship Co. Ltd’ of Hong Kong, founded in 1961, is briefly
described here (near end of page):
http://www.mardep.gov.hk/en/pub_services/sdfiles/shipman.html
"shipowners, managers, operators, agency & shipbrokers. Speciality in bulk
cement logistics."
The firm is also listed as offering warehousing services. As to cement, PS
founded ‘Siam Prosperity Shipping’ in cooperation with Siam Cement (Thailand) at
the end of the ‘seventies. A subsidiary is named ‘Bulk Cement Carriers
SA(Subsidiary Company)’.
PS cooperates with Selma Group (Philippines) to manage fleet personnel via a
local branch; there is, or at least was, a Panamanian venture as well. It seems
the number of ships operated has always been low.
A house flag (drawing) appears on above
webpage: on a white field are placed three squares in red outline, one above two
and all of them slightly overlapping.Jan Mertens, 20 February 2011

If it was founded in 1961, why was it called "Steamship"?Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 February 2011

San Lian Shipping Co. Ltd is a Hong Kong based maritime firm, as - very
briefly - indicated on
this
page. No homepage available apparently, but
here we find some essentials:
"The company was set up in 1986 and since then has handled (...) many vessels of
different size from capacity 500 to 70,000dwt. (...) The main activities of the
company are to act as port agent for vessels calling the ports in Hong Kong,
China and Taiwan; to handle cargo loading and discharging include tally,
stevedorage and barge arrangement (...); to arrange supply for equipment, bond
store, provision, bunker, fresh water and all other utilities as vessel[s] need
at the lowest cost; to arrange and co-ordinate for vessel's inspection, annual
and special survey [in order to] renew vessel's trading licences and registry;
to arrange crew embarking and repatriation."
Shown as a drawing on the first mentioned site, San Lian’s house flag is
vertically divided blue (hoist) and red (fly), a yellow vertical stripe, curved
in the shape of the initial "S", between them. Jan Mertens, 12 May 2010